Workplace Security Specialist
🔐 Expert in Security Assessments
📍 Location: Near-site (within 2 hours from Brussels)
📅 Expected Start Date: 15/06/2025
⏳ Initial Contract: 220 days (total project: 900 days)
💻 Commission-provided IT equipment
🏥 About the Role
Join the Information Systems unit of DG SANTE (Health and Food Safety), where your mission will directly support:
* 🧬 Protecting and improving human health
* 🍎 Ensuring safe food, feed, and medicinal products across the EU
* 🐾 Safeguarding animal and plant health
* 🛒 Supporting a fair internal market for food
You’ll contribute to a secure digital workplace, helping implement modern, resilient, and compliant security solutions for the European Commission.
🛠️ Your Key Responsibilities
* 🧯 Conduct security risk assessments for Digital Workplace systems (Essential)
* 🔍 Diagnose complex security & identity issues
* 🛡️ Design, implement, and support risk mitigation solutions (Essential)
* 🔗 Integrate endpoint and backend security technologies in a complex IT landscape
* 📚 Conduct security studies and assessments of information systems (Essential)
* 🔐 Ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of DG SANTE's Information Systems (Essential)
🎓 Education
* Minimum: Bachelor's degree or equivalent (EQF Level 6)
📚 Required Expertise
* 🕵️♂️ 3+ years in IT Security Risk Management, including evaluations of risks and threats
* 📋 3+ years in Compliance Management with IT security policies
* 🧮 3+ years drafting security plans and policies
* 🛠️ 3+ years managing security vulnerabilities
* 🔍 1+ year supporting incident investigations
* 🧰 Experience with ServiceNow, Confluence, and Jira (1+ year each)
* 🧾 Knowledge of EU security standards for information systems (1+ year)
🤝 Soft Skills & Abilities
* 🎤 Excellent presentation & communication skills (English C1 required)
* 🌍 Team player in multicultural/international environments
* 🧠 High integrity and discretion handling sensitive/confidential data
* ⚖️ Strong negotiation & risk assessment skills
* 🔄 Adaptability to changing priorities and cross-functional collaboration
💡 Nice to Have
* Certifications in security or risk management (optional but appreciated)
* Knowledge of additional EU languages 🇪🇺
🧳 Working Conditions
* Remote from Near-site location (reachable to Brussels within 2 hours)
* IT equipment (laptop) provided by the European Commission
* No additional travel/on-call/mission budgets required
* Security clearance (EU-27) may be required due to access to sensitive data
📬 Are you ready to secure the future of European public health and safety?
Apply now!